Obituaries

Word has been received of the death on July 13 of Sue Lynch, who lived in East Hampton as young child. Ms. Lynch died at home in Bakersfield, Calif. She was 64 and had been ill with breast cancer for about a year, said a cousin,...

Greta A. LaMonda, who had worked as a waitress at the 1770 House in East Hampton and at Sag Harbor Industries, died on July 2 at Southampton Hospital after a short illness. She was 89.
“Family is an...

Earl Burdette Vorhees Jr., a longtime resident of East Hampton, died at home in Greenport on July 10 following a five-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 78.
“Husband, father, thespian,...

Sheila Coffin Bills “had friends around the world, and deserved them,” according to her family. Ms. Bills, a former college professor, died at her house in East Hampton on June 30. She was 92, and had been diagnosed...

Miriam L. Brooks, an active member of the East Hampton Methodist Church and a resident here for almost 70 years, will be remembered with a memorial service at that church on Saturday at 10 a.m. Family and friends will be welcomed...

James B. Jeffrey, an Episcopal minister whose life work included serving people in prison and patients undergoing medical care in New York area hospitals, establishing the AIDS ministry at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, died on Sunday at Southampton Hospital.

Lawrence William Brown, a career ad man who did work for several leading New York agencies and came up with creative campaigns on the South Fork, died on June 29 at Stony Brook University Hospital. The cause was a heart attack and pneumonia, Cabell Smith, a friend, said. He was 68.

Dorothy Scott Moss, a life master of bridge born in Amagansett on Nov. 10, 1926, died at her Mill Hill Lane house in East Hampton on June 30 after years of declining health. Death was attributed to natural causes.

Carol Bock, who was at the center of a large circle of family and friends, died last Thursday after losing consciousness at home on Oakview Highway in East Hampton. She was 76 and had been in declining health, her family said.